jmorriso@fs0.ee.ubc.ca (John Paul Morrison) (08/05/90)
I have repeated what Microsoft told me about the bugs in Window's International section before, but I have more info on the extent of the bug. I was using Excel 2.1c and I couldn't get the Help box to come up. Microsoft said that I had to set the International section language back to US English. I did that, and then the help worked. Later I tried to load a dbase file, and the dates wouldn't show up. Well, you have to set EVERYTHING in your International section back to the stupid american defaults!! This means no metric, no ANSI date format, funny looking time format etc.! On a postive side, at least this shows that Excel is asuperior program, since it even BOTHERS to look at the International info. A lot of cruddy shareware programs totally IGNORE this info, and formats things whatever way it feels like. I mean what is the point of it if programs are just going to ignore it anyway? Pretty strange, if teeny bugs like this can affect the operation of a major application program; makes you wonder how anything works.